In North West,a government department spent its budget within the first 6 months of the financial year but we never saw such a harsh move.
On 12/7/11, Ndinisa Maviyo <[email protected]> wrote: > It is an interesting political and administrative development to see the > national government taking the issue provincial governance serious since > 1994. It started with the intervention in Mpumalanga Dpt of education due to > the matric results scandals, followed by the eastern cape dpt of education > and now Limpompo, Free state and Gauteng. The question I have is what > criteria is being used by the national government to intervene? The > Mpumalanga dpt of health in Mpumalanga is well known for overspending and > financial crises every year, the lack of supply of medication especially to > clinics, shortage of equipment and class 2 material to work. > > The well known saga of the medical depot and the poor supply to hospitals, > shortage of food due to non payment of service providers, the over pricing > of goods by service provider who collude with the officials. During the > president state of nation address he said all funded vacant post were going > to be filled within six months and it was repeated by the premier but within > two months there was moratorium on employing and buying of equipment and > that has resulted in the dpt failing to recruit doctors and nurses. The > whole sagga is affecting the newly qualified nurses who are not guranteed of > post and possibly community service doctors. Currently the dpt of health > does not have a HOD and other senior managers, 95% of the hospitals in the > province dont have managers; everybody is acting from the HOD down to the > clinics, what a hollywood? We are all aware that the dpt is bankrupt and > this is a tip of an iceberg in a province engulfed by financial > mismanagement and corruption.It will not be surprising to hear that the > provincial government is bankrupt. The intervention by the national > government would be welcomed in Mpumalanga. > > We know that the ANC pre CODESA has been against the module of provincial > government and federal states but have to reach a compromise during the > negotiations and actually ANC leaders ended up enjoying this module of > arrangement than those who proposed it during CODESA especially the ANC > leadership in Mpumalanga has been recycled within the provincial government, > the majority do not want to go to the national assembly to serve our nation > we rather send non starters and clowns to the national assembly. For the > past 17 years we have treated provinces as federal states and now it si > worst in the Western Cape which wants to operate like a state inside the > republic of South Africa. Maybe as the ANC is celebrating its centenary it > will review some of the agreement of CODESA including the module of > provinces. BY MAVIYO NDINISA > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . > You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . > -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
